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A Vexus Buckle and $5k Bonus for Levi
Levi Kohl is a proud blue-collar kid from Edinburg, IL. He’s the son of a former pipe-fitter and current farmer named Eric, whom he credits with teaching him how to fish. While their hometown is five hours north of Kentucky Lake, Levi’s time in recent years as a student at nearby Murray State, has sharpened his angling prowess tremendously to make him one of the best young sticks on the massive 160,000-acre Tennessee River impoundment.
He and team partner Grant Meisenhelter’s recent victory in the prestigious USA Bassin Classic not only won the pair a high-dollar fiberglass boat, but also a $5,000 REV Rewards cash bonus from Vexus, and a heritage-rich Vexus belt buckle for Levi’s trophy case.
At age 21, Kohl is a proven threat in both local and nationally sanctioned events, logging a very impressive (14) Top 10s thus far, and he says if he had to choose three lures for the rest of his life, he’s picking a Strike King 6XD crankbait, a Rapala DT 16 crankbait, and a forward-facing sonar minnow.
When it comes to favorite qualities of his Vexus VX20, he struggles to choose just three, but begins with his love of the super smooth ride he gets from the keel-forward engineering and convex hull, plus the unique AirWave suspension seats, and the fact the massive front deck allows he and Meisenhelter to fish shoulder-to-shoulder.
He’ll also be quick to tell you the patented Intensive Care Livewell system is second-to-none, and so is the room in the dry storage boxes.
Ask him what he plans to do with the $5,000 bonus from Vexus, and that answer comes quick too. “That’s going straight to my savings account.”
Much the response you’d expect from a common sense driven blue-collar kid from America’s heartland.
To learn more about Levi Kohl’s VX20, and to make sure you’re signed up to collect cash and silver buckles through REV Rewards, please visit vexusboats.com.
Amid a fishing trip on the bass-starved Ohio River in the summer of 1987, Alan McGuckin’s Dad told a then 16-year-old “Guck” — “I don’t care what you do for a living, just promise me you’ll do something you love.”
Originally from Pittsburgh, McGuckin considers himself a blue-collar kid, who has been richly blessed to live-out the best piece of advice his dad ever gave him for many years now in the Tulsa area.
After earning a degree in ecology at Juniata College in Pennsylvania, where he placed radio transmitters in largemouth bass to track their habitat preferences, he moved his life to Oklahoma in 1992, where he earned a Masters in Zoology and Fisheries under the direction of Gene Gilliland at the University of Oklahoma, before then embarking on what’s now a nearly three decade long career as a marketing and media veteran in the fishing industry.
His career spans 28 years of wisdom-rich marketing experience working to strengthen brands and increase sales for Lowrance, Terminator Lures, Toyota, Yamaha Outboards, Boat U.S., Carhartt, Costa, Quantum, Vexus Boats, and Zebco.
- Member of the Bass Fishing Hall of Fame voting committee, as well as a Board of Directors member for Keep the Tennessee River Beautiful
- Co-piloted the Terminator brand of premium lures from its birth to more than 10 Million pieces sold between 1997-2006.
- Has authored and published more than 800 stories on Bassmaster.com, along with several other popular bass fishing websites.
- He has generated $3 Million dollars’ worth of branded digital media since 2020, as a content creator.
- Serves as emcee for hundreds of guests at the annual Toyota Bonus Bucks Owners event.
- Avid angler, who fishes nearly every weekend when not on the road working.
- 13,000 followers on Instagram @GuckFishing.
“Guck” lives just north of Tulsa, OK at Lake Skiatook with wife Sherrie, an elementary school principal who also loves her job, and has a genuine passion for slinging a Rapala Brat crankbait on shallow points and habitat-laden flats.
